This rifle will be very popular in some states such as Indiana, that will not permit rifles for deer hunting unless chambered for a handgun cartridge. You cannot use a Marlin .45/70 but you can use a model 89 in .500 S&W.
Saw the same government logic in Australia years ago, when you could not have big game rifles in the Northern Territory to hunt buffalo but you could carry a Marlin .45/70 because it was considered a low powered cartridge.
Only the faces change.
JW
